throttling values being available regardless of the CPU's capabilities.
This has been broken since rev 1.1. Also clarify a comment.
Submitted by: Taku YAMAMATO <taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp>
Write 100 times for tomorrow:
I will never again free(9) a modified pointer.
Pointy Hat: yeah, yeah, yeah, can you just put it in the pile over there...
Yes, it's what you think it is. Yes, you should run away now.
This is a special compatibility module for allowing Windows NDIS
miniport network drivers to be used with FreeBSD/x86. This provides
_binary_ NDIS compatibility (not source): you can run NDIS driver
code, but you can't build it. There are three main parts:
sys/compat/ndis: the NDIS compat API, which provides binary
compatibility functions for many routines in NDIS.SYS, HAL.dll
and ntoskrnl.exe in Windows (these are the three modules that
most NDIS miniport drivers use). The compat module also contains
a small PE relocator/dynalinker which relocates the Windows .SYS
image and then patches in our native routines.
sys/dev/if_ndis: the if_ndis driver wrapper. This module makes
use of the ndis compat API and can be compiled with a specially
prepared binary image file (ndis_driver_data.h) containing the
Windows .SYS image and registry key information parsed out of the
accompanying .INF file. Once if_ndis.ko is built, it can be loaded
and unloaded just like a native FreeBSD kenrel module.
usr.sbin/ndiscvt: a special utility that converts foo.sys and foo.inf
into an ndis_driver_data.h file that can be compiled into if_ndis.o.
Contains an .inf file parser graciously provided by Matt Dodd (and
mercilessly hacked upon by me) that strips out device ID info and
registry key info from a .INF file and packages it up with a binary
image array. The ndiscvt(8) utility also does some manipulation of
the segments within the .sys file to make life easier for the kernel
loader. (Doing the manipulation here saves the kernel code from having
to move things around later, which would waste memory.)
ndiscvt is only built for the i386 arch. Only files.i386 has been
updated, and none of this is turned on in GENERIC. It should probably
work on pc98. I have no idea about amd64 or ia64 at this point.
This is still a work in progress. I estimate it's about %85 done, but
I want it under CVS control so I can track subsequent changes. It has
been tested with exactly three drivers: the LinkSys LNE100TX v4 driver
(Lne100v4.sys), the sample Intel 82559 driver from the Windows DDK
(e100bex.sys) and the Broadcom BCM43xx wireless driver (bcmwl5.sys). It
still needs to have a net80211 stuff added to it. To use it, you would
do something like this:
# cd /sys/modules/ndis
# make; make load
# cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
# ndiscvt -i /path/to/foo.inf -s /path/to/foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
# make; make load
# sysctl -a | grep ndis
All registry keys are mapped to sysctl nodes. Sometimes drivers refer
to registry keys that aren't mentioned in foo.inf. If this happens,
the NDIS API module creates sysctl nodes for these keys on the fly so
you can tweak them.
An example usage of the Broadcom wireless driver would be:
# sysctl hw.ndis0.EnableAutoConnect=1
# sysctl hw.ndis0.SSID="MY_SSID"
# sysctl hw.ndis0.NetworkType=0 (0 for bss, 1 for adhoc)
# ifconfig ndis0 <my ipaddr> netmask 0xffffff00 up
Things to be done:
- get rid of debug messages
- add in ndis80211 support
- defer transmissions until after a status update with
NDIS_STATUS_CONNECTED occurs
- Create smarter lookaside list support
- Split off if_ndis_pci.c and if_ndis_pccard.c attachments
- Make sure PCMCIA support works
- Fix ndiscvt to properly parse PCMCIA device IDs from INF files
- write ndisapi.9 man page
when using a KVM.
There is no actual solution possible, but this gets us pretty close.
Typically when switching back to a FreeBSD box and moving the mouse
wild data is produced, because the protocol's validation/checksum
system is extremely weak it is impossible to determine that we're
out of sync before dropping several bogus packets to user land.
The actual solution that appears to offer the best clamping of
jitter is to buffer the mouse packets if we've not seen mouse
activity for more than .5 seconds. Then waiting to flush that data
for 1/20th of a second. If within that 20th of a second we get any
packets that do fail the weak test we drop the entire queue and
back off accepting data from the mouse for 2 seconds and then repeat
the whole deal.
You can still get _some_ jitter, notably if you switch to the FreeBSD
box, then move the mouse just enough to generate one or two packets.
Those packets may be bogus, but may still pass the validity check.
One way to finally kill the problem once and for all is to check
the initial packets for "wild" values. Typically one sees packets
in the +/-60 range during normal operation, however when bogus data
is generated it's typically near the outer range of +/-120 or more,
those packets would be a good candidate for dropping or clamping.
I've been running with this for several weeks now and it has
significantly helped me stay sane even with a piece of junk Belkin
KVM causing wild jitter each and every time I switch.
Lastly I'd like to note that my experience with Windows shows me that
somehow the Microsoft PS/2 driver typically avoids this problem, but
that may only be possible when running the mouse in a dumb-ed down PS/2
mode that Belkin recommends on their site.
versions of the firmware. It responds more slowly to commands, and we
bogusly failed them. We assume that all versions of the intersil
firmware before 1.0 are 10 times slower and will give it 10x the time
to finish.
# for 5.2 we should always just assume 5s.
Serialize access to the SATA channels, the chip messes up if
both channels are used at the same time.
The SiI3112 hereby takes the price as the most crappy SATA chip in
existance by a significant amount.
My advise to our userbase is to avoid this chip like the plague...
Setup decent transfer mode defaults as some BIOS's seem to put in
things that it *knows* doesn't work.
(Note to BIOS writers: stop doing that nonsense, we will get things
working with your crappy HW anyways, and then recommend users to buy
someone else's products that "just works", thankyou.. )
Limit the device transfer mode to ATA100/UDMA5 on generic SATA.
Since we dont know if the user is using a pure SATA device or an
old PATA drive with a SATA converter dongle, we need to limit the
speed used here to cover up the problems with Marvell ATA-SATA bridges
used in lots of SATA products.
This workaround is enabled for all detectable SATA controllers as they
seem to have semilar problems here. One notable exception is all the
Promise pdc2037x chips which just always work (cudos to Promise!).
as these ioctl's aren't MD. This also means they are installed in
/usr/include/dev/bktr now. Also provide compatability wrappers for
where these headers lived in 4.x.
mutex to be locked. It is redundant since em_init() is called and this
correctly locks the mutex and calls em_stop().
5.2 release candidate since this can cause a panic if the watchdog
expires.
Tested by: kuriyama
lots of old interfaces, and digi now supports all cards that dgb
supported. The author of the driver says that this is no longer
necessary.
Approved by: babkin@
a long time: lmc The LAN Media Corp PCI WAN driver based on tulip.
This driver hasn't compiled for 3 years since the PCI compat shims
were removed, and Lan Media appears to have gone out of business.
These cards appear to be rare (a recent search of ebay had no hits).
Should someone wish to revive this driver, submitting patches to make
it compile plus a testing report will bring it back.
- Dynamically allocate the cpu_softc[] array based on mp_maxid instead of
using a statically sized array that depended on 'options SMP'.
- Use mp_maxid rather than MAXCPU when walking all the CPUs looking for a
match.
- Always call smp_rendezvous() since UP kernels now provide this.
- Use mp_ncpus rather than cpu_ndevices when determining if we need to
disable C3 for SMP machines.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
Reviewed by: njl
This is the vastly updated cx drvier from Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
who has been patiently waiting for this update for sometime.
The driver is mostly a rewrite from the version we have in the tree.
While some similarities remain, losing the little history that the old
driver has is not a big loss, and the re@ felt it was easier this way (less
error prone).
The userland parts of this update will be committed shortly.
The driver is not connected to the build yet. I want to make sure I
don't break any platform at any time, so I want to test that with
these files in the tree before I continue (on the off chance I'm
forgetting a file).
I changed the DEBUG macro to CX_DEBUG from the code that was submitted
(to not break when we go to building with opt_global.h after the
release), as well adding $FreeBSD$.
Submitted by: Roman Kurakin
Approved by: re@ <scottl>
code. Both the driver and the new code were wrong. Driver interrupt
handlers are supposed to take "void *vsc" arg, but some including all
COMPAT_ISA drivers and the pci part of the cy driver want an "int unit"
arg. They got this using bogus casts of function pointers which should
have kept working despite their bogusness. However, the new interrupt
code doesn't honor requests to pass an arg of ((void *)0), so things
are very broken if the arg is actually a representation of unit 0.
The fix is to use a normal "void *vsc" arg for the pci case and a
wrapper for the COMPAT_ISA case (of the cy driver). This cleans up
new-busification of the pci case but takes the COMPAT_ISA case a little
further from new-bus. The corresponding bug for the COMPAT_ISA case
has already been fixed similarly using a wrapper in compat_isa.c and
we need another wrapper just to undo that.
Fixed some directly related style bugs (mainly by removing compatibility
cruft).
cy.c:
Fixed an indirectly related old bug in cyattach_common(). A wrong status
was returned in the unlikely event that malloc() failed.
Approved by: re (scottl)
issues which they found and asked to be changed so 3ware can offcially
support the driver.
Summary of the most significant changes:
- TWE_OVERRIDE is no longer supported
- If twe_getparam failed, bogus data would be returned to the caller
- Cache the device unit in the twe_drive structure to aid debugging
- Add the 3ware driver version.
- Proper return error codes for many functions.
- Track the minimum queue length statistics
- 4.x compat: use the cached unit number from the twe_drive structure
instead of the the cached si_drv2. 3ware found that after many loads
and unloads that si_drv2 became corrupted. This did not happen in
-current.
Submitted by: Vinod Kashyap (with modifications by me)
Approved by: re (rwatson)
o Back out workaround for not resetting lucent cards more than once. With
these fixes, it appaers they are no longer necessary.
o Set wi_gone when the card goes awol: typically when we get 0xffff back from
the card. Also, don't interact with a card that's gone, so we fail in
seconds rather than minutes. Also reduce amount of time we wait to .5s
in wi_cmd.
o clear wi_gone on ifconfig down to give some cards a chance after they wedge
(this appears to unwedge one of my prism cards with old firmware). ifconfig
up will fail quickly enough if the card really is out to lunch.
o Add delay in wi_init of 100ms.
o wi_stop(ifp, 0->1) changes so that we clear sc_enabled so that we
exit out of the interrupt routine by just acking the interrupt
Submitted by: iedowse
Approved by: re@ (scottl)
# after the freeze I'll fix some of the minor style issues that reviewers
# of this patch have told me about.
using critcal_enter() and critical_exit() to attempt to replace spl*()
calls. The critical section was calling selrecord(), which locks an
MTX_DEF mutex, which is not legal in a critical section.
Tested by: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> and "make universe"
Approved by: re (scottl)
The altio resource magic no longer worked probably due to other changes
in the kernel. Redo that part so it also fits better into ATAng.
Fix detach so it doesn't panic the system when a pccard device is
yanked.
Approved by: re@
o fix race condition when processing rx descriptors: because we use
a self-linked descriptor at the end of the rx descriptor list to
avoid rx overruns (which can easily happen for 5212 parts that enable
PHY errors) we must carefully check that a descriptor is "done" by
looking ahead to the next descriptor before believing the done bit
in the current descriptor (this is all handled in the HAL since the
rx descriptor format is chip-specific so we need to pass in two
additional parameters--the physical address of the current descriptor
and the virtual address of the next descriptor in the list)
o check copyout return status for SIOCGATHSTATS ioctl
Approved by: re (scottl)
